Pieter Cleppe

Did Brexit lead to the UK’s vaccine success?

Boris Johnson (photo: Andrew Parsons / No 10 Downing Street)

Today the United Kingdom became the first country in the West to clinically authorise a vaccine protecting against Covid-19, after the medicines regulator, the MHRA, said the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was safe to use.

The announcement puts Britain ahead of Europe when it comes to rolling out the vaccine, as the EU’s own regulator, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), has not yet approved the vaccine.

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